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...John Fell, Khan is a member of Harvard's exclusive Hasty Pudding Club and a straight A student who majors in Oriental history and grinds hard. "He doesn't throw his weight or his dough around," says one of his classmates. In fact, to some other Harvardmen he was just a "nice guy whose name is Cohen or Kahn or something like that...
Last fall 31 Harvard experts began their work, and were appalled at what they found. They were so alarmed that they issued an emergency interim report on safety alone. The report was a shocker: of the city's 23 school buildings, the Harvardmen said, 14 were so dangerous that they should be closed...
...buildings, most built around the turn of the century, ceilings are falling, stairways have started to pull away from the walls. Window casements are rotting, beams sagging. In the Broadway school, the Harvardmen noted that "classroom floors vibrate when walked upon." Some of the windows that lead to the fire escapes in the Prospect school are either screened or nailed shut; Middle Street and Pidge schools have no fire escapes at all. Six schools have no sprinkler system. Of the Cottage school the Harvardmen warned: "Any internal fire that would cause the collapse of the wooden staircases could trap children...
...Castor could not live without "my dearest friend Pollux, my other self." There have been some who flatly denied the fundaments of gregariousness, like Thoreau who "never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." Yet, once again this week, the annual Experiment compels most clean-living Harvardmen to engage, if only superficially, in the qualitative analysis of their perspective upper-bunkers...
Alumni traditionally hold banquet meetings, to which they invite all the promising, prospective Harvardmen. Lloyd Jordan felt bluntly that money many of these should promise to play ball if they wanted to be prospective Harvardmen. He was wrong. If Harvard is an educational institution, it must make education its only aim; football, as University Hall has stated it, is a complement to education because, as everyone knows, "A healthy body means a healthy mind." But to say, "Charlie, my boy, you'll have time for ball and studies, too," is to say that football to some people can be just...